Of all the things to get worked up about in this hellscape — the homelessness crisis, rampant inequality, the soul-crushing reality of America’s broken systems — thousands of people online are absolutely losing it over a few cooked wild-caught geese in Springfield, Ohio.
But perfectly civilized folks (actually, almost all cultures) eat geese all the time. Right? So what’s really going on?
The thing is that the Springfield goose aficionados, in this case, were migrants. The outraged mob? Racists from the worst parts of the internet: 4chan and Elon’s X.
The recipe makes for a predictable stew. Racist memes, smug culinary supremacism, and, of course, a torrent of fake moral outrage from people who couldn’t care less about the actual lives of the undocumented.
The Springfield geese grilling incident has suddenly turned into a flashpoint for the online right’s schizophrenic anger, which is now pretending that, among other things, birds are America’s sacred cows.
I shouldn’t have to tell you this, but they’re not. Most of us eat birds every day. Ever heard of chicken?
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Are we supposed to pretend that what comes wrapped in plastic on our grocery shelves somehow doesn’t count? The